The Fastest Graphics Cards of 2003. Page 27

Quite a lot of people buy hardware and software to play with during the upcoming holidays late this month. Some buy consoles, some get new games, others acquire new graphics cards. This review will help you to choose between 9 premier graphics cards based on VPUs and GPUs from ATI and NVIDIA in 16 benchmarks representing performance in past, present and upcoming 3D games! In addition to benchmarks, we have market analysis for you.

Highly-Anticipated DirectX9 Game

And now the hit of the today’s show comes: the new generation game based on a revolutionary engine with outstanding shader graphics and realistic physical model of the environment around the player. NVIDIA has already suffered a few very upsetting defeats here, and in fact we do not have any reasons to think that this time the situation will change. Nevertheless, it is still worth checking out:

The SF Demo record, we created reflects the actual gaming situation and is very suitable for performance evaluation. In this case the victory is won by ATI based graphics cards. Moreover, the good old buddy RADEON 9500 PRO looks just excellent against the background of the new mainstream solutions. The monstrous GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is absolutely harmless and can only be regarded as a competitor to RADEON 9600 PRO. GeForce FX 5700 Ultra tries real hard to work in DirectX9 mode, but it hardly manages to cope with this task, as GeForce FX 5600 Ultra working in DirectX 8.1 mode easily outperforms the elder brother and almost catches up with the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra solution.